kampong
/kamˈpɒŋ
/ /ˈkampɒŋ /(also kampung /kamˈpʌŋ/ /ˈkampʌŋ/)
noun
A Malaysian enclosure or village.‘There's a great need to build health awareness in the villages and kampungs, and slowly this is happening,’ said Faud....
- They could also have burned down an entire kampung if they couldn't find us.
- There is no fence to separate it from the nearby kampung, and no proper external lighting.
Origin
Malay; compare with compound2.
Rhymes
- have a whale of a time
- have a will of one's own
- have a word
- have a word in someone's ear
- have bats in the (or one's) belfry
- have-been
- have been around
- have been around the block (a few times)
- have been known to do something
- have been there before
- have blood on one's hands
- have clean hands
- have designs on
- have every confidence in
- have everything
- have eyes bigger than one's stomach (or belly)
- have eyes in the back of one's head
- have eyes like a hawk
- have eyes like saucers
- have got
- have-got
- have (got) a good head on one's shoulders
- have (got) another think coming
- have got it bad (or badly)
- have (got) it in for